Matteo Malucelli took the chequered flag to complete 237 laps of the 7.004km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, of which the Czech-based Ferrari led 206 laps in a commanding performance. The win was the Czech team’s third in this year’s 24H SERIES powered by Hankook, but 6th on the road, and 3rd in the A6-Am class was still enough for PROsport Performance to claim the GT European Championship.

PROsport’s overjoyed Charles Putman said: “Man, my heart has been beating all day. It was looking a little tough earlier in the day, and just bit-by-bit, like we’ve done all year, we just kept pushing. And this was close! It could have gone either way with just 20 seconds or so. It’s been a great year!”

Scuderia Praha’s Josef Kral said: ““It was a really difficult race from the start. There were so many Code 60s, a really unbelievable number! But we drove a clean race, we kept out of trouble, and this result means a lot. I hope next year we’ll have even more GT3 cars to compete against.”

The CWS Engineering Ginetta G55 (#178, Colin White / James May) ultimately came out on top in a TCE fight that went down to the wire at the Hankook 12H SPA. James May crossed the line to complete 222 laps of the 7.004km Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, and finished just ahead of the NKPP Racing by Bas Koeten Racing CUPRA TCR DSG (#175, Gijs Bessem / Harry Hilders), unsure whether a last-minute splash-and-dash for fuel was needed in the closing moments.

CWS team owner Colin White said: “There would have been about eight seconds of fuel left, so everything had to play in the right way. There’s been 12 hours of that. James [May] drove brilliantly today, and it’s a shame his dad couldn’t be here today, but this result is for him as well, and for CWS, and for everyone here helping us today. Absolutely brilliant!”

TCRThird outright in TCE went to the Red Camel-Jordans.nl SEAT LCR TCR V3 DSG (#303, Ivo Breukers / Rik Breukers). Despite securing its first TCR class win of the season, NKPP Racing’s victory was not enough to stop the orange SEAT from securing the TCR European Championship.

Red Camel-Jordans, Ivo Breukers said: ““I was sweating all over. I was very excited to finish, and I was praying everything would go well. Anything can happen, and the car had a hit in the beginning, and I’m just so happy!”

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